Anyone not want to retire?
Most folks goal, seems to be, to retire as soon as possible. It has been my experience, that, for many folks retiring was the greatest thing they ever did. But for others it is the worst thing they ...
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Sure as h--l not me. I got so ticked off with the way I was being forced to travel to the Middle East all the time, I gave the company an ultimatum - either a non-travel or domestic-only travel job or I'm outta here. They ignored me, despite medical evidence of the stress (BP at 220/140). In my final year, I spent 29 weeks in the Islamic world and none of those trips were longer than 10 days. The only good side was that I had over 600,000 frequent flier miles by the time I retired. We've made good use of them.
The merged company (two major aerospace companies whose names I will withhold) told me to stick it where the sun don't shine, so I retired just shy of my 58th birthday, after 29 years with one of them. I went back twice as a contract engineer ("job shopper") to a job they couldn't find anyone to fill. I'd have accepted it if it had been offered, but they played "stuck-up, toffee-nosed bas--rds", and ended up paying my contract employer almost 3x what it would have cost them to employ me in the job directly.
Just love being retired (18 years later) and I can't say enough about the way I was treated by "Corporate America"!
The merged company (two major aerospace companies whose names I will withhold) told me to stick it where the sun don't shine, so I retired just shy of my 58th birthday, after 29 years with one of them. I went back twice as a contract engineer ("job shopper") to a job they couldn't find anyone to fill. I'd have accepted it if it had been offered, but they played "stuck-up, toffee-nosed bas--rds", and ended up paying my contract employer almost 3x what it would have cost them to employ me in the job directly.
Just love being retired (18 years later) and I can't say enough about the way I was treated by "Corporate America"!
